I went to DrupalCon2008 expecting the usual 20 to 40 techie types in a room. Sort of a Modules Anonymous session, as Boris Mann of RainCity described it. What I didn’t expect was the crazy mad buzz of a thousand Drupalites in the moments before Dries Buytaert gave the keynote speech.

The mojo seems to be rising for Drupal these days!

Meanwhile, heading home on the subway not only was I surrounded by people toting boxed sets of Edward Tufte‘s books on visualizing data, the young woman across from me was reading Astral Projection for Beginners. I kid you not! Some days, thankfully, are just strange…